Scotland 's enterprise activity falls to 'worrying' low

Business start-up rates in Scotland fell significantly below UK rates last year, and to their lowest since recording began in 2000, according to research by academics at the University of Strathclyde.
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) 2009 found that Scotland's rate of total early stage entrepreneurial activity, which includes proportions of people setting up businesses or owning and managing new businesses, was among the lowest in 20 developed countries that participated in the survey.